David Drake (actor)

David Drake (born June 27, 1963) is an American playwright, stage director, actor and author. He is best known as the author and original performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, for which he received a Village Voice Obie Award, a 1994 Drama-Logue Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance," and a Robbie Stevens Frontiers Magazine Award for the same. Nominations include a 1994 LA Weekly Theater Award and a Lambda Literary Award nomination for "Best New Play of 1994" (published by Anchor Books).

David Drake
BornDavid Drakula
(1963-06-27) June 27, 1963
Edgewood, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationPlaywright, stage director, actor, author
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksThe Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
Notable awardsVillage Voice Obie Award, Drama-Logue Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance", Robbie Stevens Frontiers Magazine Award for "Outstanding Solo Performance"

Biography

Born as David Drakula in Edgewood, Maryland, and raised in Baltimore, he later began going by the name David Drake. He has Romanian roots.[1] Drake has contributed articles to the Advocate, TheaterWeek, and Details. One of the longest one-actor plays in Off Broadway history, Larry Kramer has received over thirty productions in nearly a dozen countries, and the published version was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

In 2000 Drake starred in a movie version of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. The movie was directed by Tim Kirkman and was filmed at Baltimore Theatre Project.

David Drake has appeared in the feature film Philadelphia and on the stage in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Pageant, The Boys in the Band, and A Language of Their Own.

He now lives in Manhattan.

Credits

Print
  • The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, New York : Anchor Books, 1994, 112 pages, ISBN 0-385-47204-8

Stage

As a director, David has directed Eric Bernat's Starstruck, That Woman: Rebecca West Remember, starring Anne Bobby, and The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, written and performed by Taylor Mac, which won a Herald Angel Award, A Latest Award, and an Argus Angel Award. In May, 2009, his production of James Edwin Parker's 2 Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter's Night played to sold-out houses and rave reviews as part of the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. He is currently working on directing Songs My Mother Never Taught Me, written and performed by Deborah Karpel, which premiered at the Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen, Germany, in June, 2009.

In July 2009 he participated in the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, workshopping Taylor Mac's five-act musical Lily's Revenge. This was his second trip to Sundance, having directed the workshop of Edmund White's Terre Haute in 2005.

He is a frequent collaborator of New York producer Paul Lucas, for whom he has directed that Woman, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, Stand Up/Lie Down, and Songs My Mother Never Taught Me.

He is currently the artistic director of the Provincetown Theatre.

Film
GenreYearTitleRoleEpisodesNotes
Film1989Longtime CompanionGMHC Volunteer
TV series1992Law & OrderVoorman"Star Struck"3 episodes total
Film1993Naked in New YorkWaiter
TV series1993BobPatrick"Whose Card Is It Anyway?"
TV film1993Out ThereHimself
Film1993PhiladelphiaBruno
Film1994It's PatGunther
TV series1995New York UndercoverMizek Rezami"Young, Beautiful and Dead"
Short film1996Cater-WaiterGary14 minutes
Film1997David SearchingMark
Film1997Peoria BabylonJon Ashe
Short film1998Black OlungThe Tea Lover10 minutes
Short film1998Tree ShadeSanta Claus30 minutes
Short film199915 MinutesThe Artist25 minutes
Film1999Hit and RunwayMichael
Short film1999The Trey Billings ShowTrey Billings / Dodie Day30 minutes; writer; actor
Film2000The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Mewriter; actor
filmed in 1999, also on DVD and video, 2002
Short film2001Cruise ControlGary7 minutes
Short film2001Jeffrey's Hollywood Screen TrickVoice of Gay Menvoice actor; 11 minutes
TV series2001Law & OrderMr. Aldrich"Soldier of Fortune"3 episodes total
TV series2003Law & Order: Criminal IntentJason"Suite Sorrow"
Film2007Night Falls FastGuy
TV series2008Law & OrderHerbert Wiggins"Bottomless"3 episodes total
Film2008We Pedal UphillAndy
Film2010BearCityDr. Straube
TV series2012The Good WifeJacques"Blue Ribbon Panel"
"Pants on Fire"
Film2017After LouieWilliam Wilson

See also

References
  1. Murphy, Tim (May 1, 2013). "A Very Enduring Kiss". POZ. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
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